Birdhaven is a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa. It is adjacent to the suburb of Melrose. It is located in Region E of the City of Johannesburg Metropolitan Municipality.
History The suburb is situated on parts of the old Witwatersrand farms called Syferfontein and Zandfontein. It would be proclaimed as suburb on 8 October 1949 and its name is derived from either the bird sanctuary next door or Jack Bird Barregar and the company Bird Investments.
It has traditionally been a centre for Johannesburg's Jewish community. Jewish residents made up 60.8% of the population in 1971.
During the apartheid era, it was classed as a "whites only" area under the terms of the Group Areas Act. In 1991, the Abolition of Racially Based Land Measures Act, 1991 repealed the Group Areas Act.
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